The High-end Forum “Forty Years Reform and Opening up and the Modernization of State Government” and Annual Conference of State Governance Research Think Tank (2018) Held in Beijing

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The High-end Forum “Forty Years Reform and Opening up and the Modernization of State Government” and Annual Conference of State Governance Research Think Tank (2018) were held in Beijing on September 28, 2018. The event was sponsored by the Academic Division of Social, Political and Legal Studiesof Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and State Governance Research Think Tank, organized by CASS Law Institute, CASS Institute of International Law and the Department of Rule of Law Strategy of CASS Law Institute and CASS Institute of International Law, and attended by about 100 experts, scholars, as well as representatives from local governments and the mass media, including Professor Li Peilin, Vice Chairman of CASS, Mr. Ma Yuan, Director of CASS Bureau of Scientific Research Management, Mr. Wang Lei, Director of CASS Bureau of International Cooperation, Mr. Gao Jingzhai, Deputy Director of CASS Personnel and Education Bureau, Professor Chen Su, Director of CASS Law Institute, Professor Fang Ning, Director of CASS Institute of Political Science, Professor Wang Yanzhong, Director of CASS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Professor Chen Guangjin, Director of CASS Institute of Sociology, Professor Zhang Yi, Director National Academy of Social Development Strategy, and Mr. Tang Xujun, Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies.The forum was divided into four units, in which the participants gave speeches and carried out discussions on a wide range of issues around the follow topics: forty years of reform and opening up and state governance; forty years of state governance in China; forty years of social construction in China; and improvement of the methods and efficiency of the think tank.